OSCE Chief Monitor Apakan invites more female monitors to Ukraine

Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan says that more female monitors are needed in Ukraine.

Apakan says The SMM will continue to pursue initiatives as dialogue among women's NGO / Photo from osce.org

"We need the support of OSCE participating states in raising the number of women among OSCE monitors in Ukraine," the OSCE SMM tweeted on Friday, quoting Apakan as saying at the OSCE Security Days in Vienna on November 13.

"Women must be heard more and take an active role in the peace process" in Donbas, Apakan said.